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quarters for Legal Blanks
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and chattel mortgages,war
ranty and quit claim deeds
vendors lien notes, deeds of
trust, etc., always in stockI J
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VOL. 16. Honey Grove, Texas, Friday, August IO, 1906. NO 27
“Cut
it Out”
says many a doctor to his
laoy patients, because he
doesn't know of any medi-
cine that will cure female
troubles except the sur-
geon's knife*
That such a medicine
exists, however,is proved by
thousands of cures made by
WINE
OF
CARDUI
Cures Womb
Disease
It has saved the lives of many
weak, sick women and rescued oth-
ers from a lifetime of chronic sick-
ness. It will cure you if you will
only give it a chance. Try it.
Sold by all druggists and deal-
ers in SI.00 bottles.
GAVE UP SUPPORTER.
“ I wore a supporter for four
years, to keep up my womb,”
writes Mrs. S. J. Chrisman, of
Mannsville, N. Y. “Mydoctor said
no medicine would help me. After
taking Cardui I gave up my sup-
porter and am now well.”
STATE FAIR RACES.
Great Horses Enter for the Big Purses
and Stakes Hung Up by
the Association.
The five big stake harness
races to take place on the State
Fair track in October next, have
closed with a total of even one
hundred entries, or twenty entries
to the race. Entries in all other
races are equally numerous. The
State Fair management an-
nounces that it already has a
greater number of horses in sight
than it had on the grounds last
year, and that applications for
stalls and entry blanks are still
coming in. The meeting will,
without doubt, be the greatest
ever held in the Southwest. The
stakes and purses aggregate more
than $50,000, and there are near-
ly one hundred events on the
program for the thirteen days.
The stakes in the five big harness
races are $1200.
Republicans Meet.
The Republicans of Fannin
county met in convention at Bon-
ham Saturday, and proceeded to
organize by electing Dr. R. H.
Crabb temporary chairman and
Sam Alexander temporary secre-
tary. Later Dr. R. E. Martin
was elected permanent chairman
and Sam Alexander permanent
secretary.
The delegates to the State Con-
tion were elected as follows: R.
H. Crabb, R. C. May and C. A.
Gray.
Col. Cecil A. Lyon was endors-
ed as state chairman and Dr. C.
A. Gray was recommended as
state committeeman.
Only three nominations were
made for county officers, which
were as follows:
For District Clerk—Sam Mc-
Farland, of Ladonia.
For Sheriff—-Pate Taylor, of
Bonham.
For County Attorney—E. C.
Armstrong, of Honey Grove.
In Self Defense.
Major Hamm, editor and man-
ager of the Constitutionalist, Em-
inence, Ky., when he was fierce-
ly attacked, four years ago, by
piles, bought a box of Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve, of which he says:
“It cured me in ten days and no
trouble since.” Quickest healer
of burns, sores, cuts and wounds.
25c at Murray & Evans drug
store.
Galveston and return, Satur-
day, Aug. 11; $5.45. Santa Fe.
EDUCATING WORMS.
Among his many valuable contribu-
tions to agricultural science none seems
to promise better results than Luther
Burbank’s experiments with cutworms.
His theory is that these creatures ean
be educated, their vicious tastes di-
verted and good instincts substituted
for bad ones. If left to himself the cut-
worm is wholly vicious. He does all
bad and no good. Burbank’s notion is
to cultivate in these creatures a differ-
ent appetite. Instead of allowing them
free range he restricts them : instead
of allowing them to eat what they
choose, he himself arranges their bill
of fare. Of course, a cutwrorm, if not
interfered with, will prefer corn, cab-
bage, tomatoes and other vegetables,
but if these are drugged so as to taste
badly to the worms they will avoid
them. At this critical stage the prop-
er thing to do is to substitute the
things you want him to eat and thus
make him a benefactor instead of a
destroyer. Burbank supplied plenty of
dandelions and other weeds, and was
delighted to And that in time the
worms chose these in preference to the
vegetables. Behold, then, five hundred
educated, well-behaved cutworms
crawling around the wizard’s gardens
and helping him to keep down noxious
vegetation. The outcome was marvel-
lous. In a few days it was noticed that
all the dandelions were dying and ex-
amination show'ed that they were cut
off just below the water line. One va-
riety after another of the weeds suc-
cumbed before the onslaughts of these
educated cutworms, to the great bene-
fit of the flowers pnd vegetables in the
garden of the great California experi-
menter.—American Farmer.
Great man, that Luther Bur-
bank. When we gazed upon his
5,000 acres of sweet peas last
year the thought came to us that
he was doing more toward beau-
tifying the world than any other
man; but it seems that his work
is not confined to esthetics. Bur-
bank is certainly the originator
of the theory that insects can be
trained to be good, and if he es-
tablishes it he will certainly go
down in history as a greater ben-
efactor than any of the inventors,
writers or dispensers of great
fortunes.
If the cutworm can be educated
to lead a better life the boll-worm
can also be persuaded to change
his diet, and thereby become a
benefactor instead of a pest. We
see no particular reason why this
dreaded worm with a hard head
on each end should single out
cotton bolls as his only article of
diet. There’s a wealth of green-
stuff all around that looks as good
to the human eye and is much
sweeter to the human taste. Pos
sibly if Mr. Worm would only
give it a trial he would like it;
even if he didn’t fall in love with
it on the start he might cultivate
a taste for it, as men do with beer
and tobacco. And think what a
weapon for good the worm will be
if he can be taught to eat sun-
flowers, crab-grass and morning-'
glories! Instead of being as un-
welcome as a mother-in-law he
will be as welcome as a pretty,
rosy-cheeked cousin of seventeen
summers.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Fannin county democrats went
on record in favor of the blanket
primary and against the conven-
tion. Democrats in other parts
of the state did likewise, and it is
quite probable that after this year
there will never be another can-
didate nominated by a convention
in Texas. The primary is the
only chance the people have to
register their will; when the nom-
inations go to conventions they
can have nothing to say and can
only stand by and watch those
win who are most skilled in trick-
ery. Fannin Democrats want a
blanket primary, with a uniform
test, and a majority vote.
And we’ll not meet our some-
times-friend and oft-times-ene-
my, Hon. Thomas Cat Bradley,
in the state convention. Neither
will the Hon. Thomas Cat meet
us there. Neither will anybody
meet either of us.
W. H. FIQUET & SON,
UNDERTAKERS.
Full line of Caskets, Coffins, Robes, Etc. Prompt and Intelligent
Attention. Telephone at Residence for Night Calls.
NEXT DOOR TO POSTOFFICE.
Adopts Many Resolutions and Names
Delegates to the State
Convention.
The Fannin county Democrats
met in convention at Bonham
Saturday with delegates present
from about four-fifths of the vot-
ing boxes.
P. C. Thurmond was chosen
temporary chairman and J. H.
Lowry and Theo. Fulgham sec-
retaries. Later the temporary
organization was made perma-
nent.
Committees on platform, cre-
dentials, selection of delegates
and permanent organization were
appointed, each committee con-
sisting of one delegate from each
justice precinct.
The following delegates were
named to the State Convention:
Pre. No. 1, P. C. Thurmond
and A. P. Barrett.
No. 2, R. B. McMahon.
No. 3, W. Carl Evans and C.C.
Miles.
No. 4, G. A. Marvin.
No. 5, D. H. Cabeen and S. L.
Erwin.
No. 6, W. A. Cooper.
No. 7, Dr. J. Cunningham.
No. 8, W. R. Evans.
The following delegates were
named to the Congressional Con-
vention :
Pre. No. 1, A. J. Moore and
Ashley Evans.
No. 2, R. H. Cook.
No. 3, J. Q. Kuyrkendall and
D. D. McLary.
No. 4, Maxwell Foster and W.
B. Merrill.
No. 5, J. H. Lowry.
No. 6, Dr. W. E. Cravens.
No. 7, Joe Arledge.
No. 8, J. C. Organ.
The report of the committee on
platform and resolutions was a
long one and we print only the
planks of general interest.
1. We demand that the next
Legislature enact a stringent and
effective Anti - Free - Pass law
which shall prohibit the issuance
of free passes, transportation,
tickets or franks or by any refund
or rebate in any form by any cor-
poration in this state to any per-
son or persons except bonafide
owners, officers, or employes of
said corporations.
2. We believe the Democratic
Party of Texas is too big and
broad guaged to admit the injus-
tice of a measure as it did in the
twelfth plank of the Houston con-
vention, and to longer justify the
same on the grounds of expedi-
ency. We therefore declare the
present system of levying occu-
pation taxes on useful occupa-
tions and professions contrary to
the true spirit and import of our
state constitution which say3:
“Taxation shall be equal and
uniform,” as well as in direct vi-
olation of the fixed principles of
the Democratic Party of Texas,
and demand the immediate and
unconditional repeal of this in-
iquitous tax on all useful occupa-
tions and professions.
5. We demand that the next
Legislature enact a law provid-
ing for a term of six months free
school each year in every school
district in Texas.
6. We endorse the Terrell
election law as a wise and effi-
cient measure of reform, which
has greatly purified the ballot in
this state and urge our Legisla-
ture to the enactment of such
amendments thereto as may be
found necessary from time to
time to perfect and strengthen
the same, and that it is the sense
of this Convention that the best
interests of the Democracy of
Texas demand a blanket prima-
ry for the selection of all candi-
dates for nomination,and the del-
egates from this Convention to
the State Convention are hereby
instructed to vote for the adop-
tion of a plank in the state plat-
form pledging the party to a
blanket primary under a uniform
test provided by law and provid-
ing for a second primary, if one
be necessary, to secure to a nom-
inee a majority of all the votes
cast in said election.
9. Our Representatives are
instructed to introduce in the
next Legislature a bill provid-
ing that notes and bonds sub-
ject to taxation, but unrendered
cannot be enforced in suits for
collection in our courts, and fur-
ther, that corporations shall be
prohibited from paying dividends
to stockholders on unrendered
stocks and bonds, and further
that the oath and penalty for the
failure to render such property be
Are You Tired, Nervous
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Nervousness and sleeplessness are us-
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toned up and invigorated, and you are
good for a whole lot of physical or mental
work. Best of all, the strength and in-
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The trouble with most tonics and med-
icines which have a large, booming sale
for a Short time, is that they are largely
composed of alcohol holding the drugs in
solution. This alcohol shrinks up the red
blood corpuscles, and in the long run
greatly injures the system. One may feel
exhilarated and better for the time being,
yet in the end weakened and with vitality
decreased. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery contains no alcohol. Every
bottle of it bears upon its wrapper The
Badge of Honesty, inafull list of all its
several ingredients. -For the druggist to
offer you something he claims is "just as
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Every ingredient entering into the
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has the unanimous approval and endorse-
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of all the several schools of practice No
other medicine sold through druggists for
like purposes has any such endorsement.
The "Golden Medical Discovery” not
only produces all the good effects to be
obtained from the use of Golden Seal
root, in all stomach, liver and bowel
troubles, as in dyspepsia, biliousness, con-
stipation, ulceration of stomach and
bowels and kindred ailments, but the
Golden Seal root used in its compound-
ing is greatly enhanced in its curative ac-
tion by other ingredients such as Stone
root. Black Cherrybark, Bloodroot. Man-
drake root and chemically pure triple-
refined glycerine.
"The Common Sense Medical Adviser,"
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21 one-cent stamps to pay the cost of mail-
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Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation. biliousness and headache.
made more stringent that it now
is.
Hon. Thos. B. Love, of Dallas,
was indorsed for Speaker of the
next House of Representatives.
Resolutions were also adopted
endorsing our representatives in
Congress, the Texas Senate and
Legislature, and thanking them
for their faithful work.
Telephones on Cars.
Telephone service has been es-
tablished on all freight trains of
the Galveston, Harrisbnrg & San
Antonio railroad between San
Antonio and El Paso, and it is
now possiple for a train crew at
any place along the line to get
conneciion with the train dis
patcher along their division.
The service is of greatest value
when the freight crew is caught
on a blind siding. One of the
crew can get connection by the
telegraph wire and receive his
instructions from the dispatcher.
In case of a wreck he can imme-
diately telephone for assistance
or instruction.
Each caboose is equipped with
a telephone instrument. With an
extension fishing-pole-like ar-
rangement the conductor can
make connections with the rail-
road telegraph wire and reach
the office he desires.
At the same time the telephone
is in use messages can be trans-
mitted by telegraph and neither
message will interrupt the other.
For several years inventors
have been at work trying to in-
stall telephones in passenger
coaches where,by connection with
the rails, a passenger in a car can
reach telephone connection with
anyone with whom he wishes to
speak along the line. Successful
experiments have been performed
in this manner, but have not been
successul enough to be put into
general use.—San Antonio Ex-
press.
It is Free. Write for It.
Our large illustrated catalogue
will tell you of the Famous Byrne
Simplified Shorthand and Practi-
cal Bookkeeping, as taught in
the Tyler Commercial College, of
Tyler, Texas.
Negro Agricultural School.
The negroes of North Texas
are preparing to establish an ag-
ricultural and mechanical college
about four miles west of Ladonia.
They have purchased a tract of
58 acres of land and have paid
for same. They have also had
plans drawn for a main building
to cost $3500 and will lay the
cornerstone on the 23d of the
present month.
In this good work the negroes
have received much encourage-
ment from the white people of
Ladonia.
POT LIQUOR.
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^ phatically for perfect nutrition, j
<4 And yet in the matter of restor-
ing appetite, of giving new
strength to the tissues, especially
to the nerves, its action is that
of a medicine.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists,
£ 409-415 Pearl Street, New York.
(lists,
Ne
50c. and $1.00; all druggists.
How (he Beverage was Made and
Served Causes a Dispute
Among Editors.
The sassafras tea trouble be-
tween the Signal and Col. Ster-
rett, of the Dallas News, which at
one time threatened the disruption
of the Democratic party and a
massacre as bloody as St. Bar-
tholomew’s, having been settled
to the satisfaction of all, another
journalistic war has broken out
over the compounding and serv-
ing of Pot Liquor.
The Fort Worth Record, in a
recent ^issue, commented on the
trouble as follows:
“The Washington Post has got itself
into trouble by discussing pot liquor,
which it says is made from cabbage
and bacon and served in tin cups, with
crackling bread or corn bread broken
into it.
“The Virginians, with characteristic
pride and egotism as the only souther-
ners, denounce the Post’s recipe as a
mere backwoods decoction and de-
clare that the pot liquor which Patrick
Henry drank just before hurling de-
fiance at King George, which Thomas
Jefferson sipped as he wrote the de-
claration of independence and which
sustained George Washington at Val-
ley Forge, is the only kind of pot liq-
uor that deserves the name, that it is
properly made nowhere else than in
Virginia, and ‘the proper ingredients
are bacon jowl with the tongue left in,
turnip greens and corn meal dump-
lings all cooked together.’
“Whereupon that eminent Tar Heel,
George M. Bailey, of the Houston Post,
who enjoys the paradoxical fame of be-
ing an intimate friend of both Sam
Jones and Charley Edwards, declares
that:
“ ‘Our Washington contemporary
will upon reflection see that crackling
bread is not obtainable at all seasons of
the year. In North Carolina, the real
pot liquor architects constructed it ac-
cording to this fashion : In spring and
summer, take a mess of collards and
insert in a pot of cold water. Hang
the same by the pot hooks over a slow
fire. While the collards are slowly
steaming, make the same corn dump-
lings the Virginians told about. In the
meantime suppose an old North Caro-
lina smoked shoulder had been b’iling
in another pot for about two hours.
After the collards have been sufficient-
ly steamed put in the corn meal dump-
lings and drop in that smoked should-
er and let the whole shooting match
boil together until the collards are
thoroughly cooked, say about ninety
minutes.
“ ‘Eat all that delicious shoulder
and collards you like, but do not serve
the pot liquor in a tin cup—at least not
unless the tin cup will hold at least
half a gallon.
“ ‘The collard season not lasting all
the year round, it is necessary later in
the year to substitute cabbage for col-
lards. But real pot liquor is brewed
from cabbage or collards, North Caro-
lina shoulder and corn meal dump-
lings.’
“Both wrong.
“The real pot liquor, the stuff that
fills like buttermilk and stays like corn
whiskey, is a Georgia distillation. The
ingredients vary a little according to
the season. They may be collards and
shoulder, or cabbage and ham bone, or
turnips and jowl, but they are essen-
tially greens and meat boiled with
spring water in an iron pot on a cob
fire. After the greens and meat are
removed the liquor is allowed to cool
slightly and is served in soup bowls
and thickened with crumbled corn
pone, preferably the brown crust, to
the consistency of thin gruel.
“About four ‘helpings’ will fit a man
for a log rolling or a foot race or a po-
litical debate, and he will have his op-
ponent so far outpointed that it will be
a wale-a-way and the girl in the pink
sunbonnet will hesitate no longer.
“And we have always had the con-
viction that the lack of it caused
the failure of Confederate arms.
If General Lee’s commissary de-
partment hadn’t run out of ba-
con and greens and thereby necessari-
ly cut off the pot liquor ration, he
would have licked Grant or been fight-
ing yet.”
The Record mixes a lot of truth
with a world of error. It tells how
pot liquor was made to a nicety,
but as to the serving of it, it dis-
plays unpardonable ignorance.
In pot liquor days there was no
such a thing as a “soup bowl.”
Co.mpanyate it from butter bowls
children were filled from tin
plates and negroes ate it from the
pot. Let us not mix Delmon-
ico table dishes with the happy
pot liquor days of the old South.
UNCLE SAM THE LIMIT.
Cheer up, gentlemen, no mat-
ter if all your candidates were de-
feated and you failed to get on
the delegation to the state con-
vention—for verily we say unto
you the millennium is approach-
ing. The inventors assure us
that the cotton chopper and the
cotton picker have been perfec-
ted, and Mr. Luther Burbank is
teaching the insects to eat the
plants we do not want instead of
the plants we do want. When we
can hoe cotton and pick cotton by
driving through the patch in a
buggy, and do away with weeds
and grass in field and garden by
sicking the worms on them, what
matters it if we do lose a candi-
date for Congress or Governor
occasionally?
Signal and Dallas News, $1.75.
The End of the World
of troubles that robbed E. H.
Wolfe, of Bear Grove, la., of all
usefulness came when he began
taking Electric Bitters. He writes:
“Two years ago Kidney trouble
caused me great suffering, which
I would never have survived had
I not taken Electric Bitters. They
also cured me of general debili-
ty.” Sure cure for all stomach
liver and kidney complaints,blood
diseases, headache, dizziness and
weakness or bodily decline. Price
50c. Guaranteed by Murray &
Evans, druggists.
Filipino Orator Tells His Countrymen
What a Great Power They
Are a Part of.
An aspiring young Filipino,
who spent two years in Washing-
ton City with his eyes and ears
open, addressed his countrymen
in Manila on the Fourth of July,
as follows:
“Fellow Filips and Sister Fil-
lies:—Your Uncle Sam is great.
When in knee breeches he flog-
ged the British Lion. As a youth
he sailed under the frowning cliff
of Algiers and taught the haughty
Sultan of Morocco to respect the
rights of Yankee Doodle. He
crossed the Sierra Madras and
planted the stars and stripes over
the halls of the Montezumas. He
scaled the Rockies and gave us
California. Recently he spanked
Spain out of Cuba, sent her fleet
to join McGinty in our harbor
and took us under his wing. He
is now cutting a ditch to bring us
nearer home. He says ‘hands off
of America,’ and they are off; to
the Jap and Rus, ‘you cubs have
scrapped enough, come over to
my house and settle.’ They came,
they settled. Tne emphatic set
down of his brogan shakes the
earth around. He stalks abroad
with a chip on his hat and the
strenuous twitch of his goatee
signifies that he is itching to butt
in at any old time and place. His
bunting floats unmolested upon
every sea, and serenely flut-
ters in every port. He is eas-
ily the champion heavy-weight of
the world. He feels his oats and
his pent-up strength and repress-
ed vitality actually hurt him. He
must reach out in all directions
and grasp something, hit some-
body, kick the kids, break up the
circus, and rake in the gate mon-
ey. He wants and must have el-
bow room, breathing space, ex-
pansion, empire. Ah, well, he
has the history of the rise and j
fall of empires before him.
“My fellowpinos, we are now a
part and parcel of this great em-
pire. There is nothing like it un-
der the sun. Uncle Sam has the
greatest aggregation of good
things and bad things, hot things
and cold things, all sizes, shapes
and colors ever exhibited under
one tent. You ought all to go
over and see this land of law and
license, magnificent churches and
40,000 saloons, schools in low
places and high, Bibles and brib-
ery, gospel and guns, grace and
graft, hemes and hunger, money
and misers, trusts and tramps,
billionaires and bums, virtue and
vice, polygamy in Utah and easy
divorce elsewhere, so a man may
be off with the old wife and on
with the new as profit, pleasure
or passion may move him. The
polygamist is turned out of Con-
gress and the divorce turned in!
The land that boasts a Carrie Na-
tion and a John Alexander Dow-
ie; where a good Bible may be
had for 15c and a bad drink of
whiskey for 5c; where the erring
girl becomes an outcast and her
despoiler a social lion; prayers on
the floors of congress and whis-
key in the cellars; missionaries
in the steamer’s cabin and red
liquor in the hold; where the
people are taxed $5,000 to bury a
millionaire statesman and $3
from the pauper fund to bury an
honest working man; where to be
virtuous is to be lonesome, to be
honest a suicidal crank; where
they pay $1,000 for a bird dog
and 50c a dozen to a poor woman
for making shirts; where cash
talks, sin stalks, j astice sleeps,
corruption permeates the social
and political fabrics and the devil
laughs aglee.
“My countrymen, I gathered
this information from the pro-
ceedings of the Congress and the
courts, the exposure in the de-
parts of government and from the
newspapers. I was told that in
the dark corners, backwood and
rural districts peace, piety an d
poverty prevail, but the upper
tens give the country its rep.
Uncle Sam is grand in greatness,
glorious in goodness and in bad-
ness he is bad.—Ex.
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The Appian Way.
The Roman empire did many
notable things during its fifteen
centuries of world domination,
but its greatest achievement was
the building of a road. To this
day the glorious Appian Way is
the brightst star in its galaxy of
achievements. This incompara-
ble highway, the first and best
ever constructed, was begun by
Appias Claudius 312 B. C., con-
tinued during subsequent admin-
istrations and completed about
thirty years before the Christian
era. It began at Rome, extended
east through the territory of La-
tium, Campania, Basilicata and
Apulia until it reached Brundu-
sium on the Adriatic sea. Its to-
tal length was three hundred and
fifty miles and its general trend
southeast from the great capital
in a course parallel to the Medi-
terranean sea. A peculiarity of
the Roman road-building was
their inclination to seek straight
lines. Their aim was to go direct
from point to point, as the crow
flies. Instead of going around
difficulties, even when this was
possible, they seemed to prefer to
cut through them rather than di-
verge. As to the Appian Way,
the pride and boast of every Ro-
man for a thousand years, it was
as beautiful as the most popular
avenues or boulevards in any
modern city and for more dura-
ble.
We sometimes think that, the
time may come when there will
be a duplicate of the Appian Way
in the United States. It will start
on the Atlantic at some central
point, cross the Alleghanies, pass
over the Ohio valley, span the
Mississippi on a majestic bridge,
wind up the Missouri valley near
the old Oregon trail, climb the
Rockies and eventually reach the
Pacific. Think of such a high-
way, paved like a Paris boule-
vard and as smooth as Pennsyl-
vania avenue, stretching three
thousand miles through the rich-
est farm land in the world. From
it will radiate a system of state
roads worthy of the prototype
and from these minor roads will
cross every county and pass or
bisect every farm in the Union.
Railroads are indispensable, the
trolley is useful and convenient,
but what the farmers want more
than anything else is a system of
general and local roads equal to
the very best in construction and
durability. What was done by
the ancient Roman world surely
can be done by the great repub-
lic in the centuries to come, and
we like to dream of the time when
there will be an Appian Way
through every state and a branch
worthy of it through every neigh-
borhood in the entire galaxy of
states, from ocean to ocean.—
American Farmer.
A Record-Breaking Judge.
Macon, Miss., August4.—A re-
markable scene was witnessed in
the circuit court this afternoon
when 250 citizens, many of them
prominent socially and church
members, were lined up before
Judge Robert F. Cochran to re-
ceive sentences for playing poker
and shooting craps. After giving
the prisoners a terrific roast on
the evils of gambling, Judge
Cochran remarked that he had to
do what he did not think any oth-
er judge in the state ever did be-
fore, give 250 sentences in one
day.
Judge Cochran penalized poker
players at $500 and ninety days
in jail, with the agreement that
with $100 paid the days would be
suspended on good behavior.
Crap shooters were soaked $100
each, with the agreement that on
paying $25 the balance would be
suspended on good behavior.
Judge Cochran stated that from
this time on the penalty for poker
would be $500 and ninety days
each, and crap shooters $100.
All offenders paid up their fines
at once. More than $4,000 was
collected.
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